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Gregor Gysi
Gregor Gysi is a trained attorney and veteran politician of Germany's socialist Left Party.
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German election 2021: Governing coalition options
DW takes a look at Germany's colorful shorthand for how various coalitions governments could shape up.
What are the German party programs?
Here is where the six main parties stand on the most important topics such as climate, taxes and social security.
Could Germany soon have a left-wing government?
Chancellor Merkel's CDU is flagging in the polls — and conjuring up the threat of a far-left takeover. Rightly so?
German parties pledge to confront climate change — or not
The fight against climate change is one of the German voters' main topics of concern at election time.
Opinion polls upend CDU, SPD party campaigns
Increasingly desperate conservatives are warning of a socialist takeover. But the center-left SPD is playing it safe.
Merkel questions SPD's Scholz on Left party
Angela Merkel has taken the Social Democrat candidate to succeed her to task over his possible coalition options.
Interview with Janine Wissler from the Left Party
Germany votes: DW interview with the Left’s lead candidate, Janine Wissler.
Exclusive: German Left Party urges Afghan aid to continue
In an interview with DW, the Left's top candidate Janine Wissler sharply criticized Berlin's actions in Afghanistan.
The Left Party and its anti-military unique selling point
The Left Party wants to end all Bundeswehr missions abroad, stop all weapons exports and scrap the NATO alliance.
Germany's unruliest political rogues
All German political parties have a politician who annoys party leaders by making outrageous statements.
Germans want political continuity
In less than one hundred days, Germans will vote for a new parliament.
Swedish prime minister loses no confidence vote
Social Democrat party leader Stefan Lofven now has the choice of either stepping down or calling a snap election.
Left party plans to scrap NATO, end troop deployments
The socialist Left party has adopted its policy platform for Germany's September general election.
Germany's CDU gets boost with surprise victory
Angela Merkel's party got a boost, while the Green party had its hopes dashed.
A guide to Germany's possible coalitions
Coalition negotiations are the vital beginning of every legislative period. So what options are there?
Untangling the German election process
DW breaks down the ins-and-outs of the Bundestag election as Germany heads to the polls on September 26.
Germany's Left party attempts a fresh start
A few months before Germany's national election, the socialists hope a new leadership duo will give them fresh momentum.
Germany 2021: Fighting COVID and replacing Angela Merkel
The pandemic fight and political battles are expected to be the defining features of 2021 in Germany.
Top politicians in Thuringia both lose their immunity
The AfD's Björn Höcke faces defamation charges, while a middle finger gesture plagues the Left party's Bodo Ramelow.
Germany's refugee population falls by over 60,000
The number of refugees living in Germany has fallen for the first time in nine years, said the Interior Ministry.
NRW local election sees likely gain for Greens
The environmentalist party has seen its best result in a municipal election, according to an exit poll.
Germany: Co-leaders of socialist Left Party to quit
After eight years, Katja Kipping and Berndt Riexinger announce they are stepping down as leaders of the socialist party.
German state removes gender parity election rule
One year ago a law was introduced in Thuringia that required gender parity for candidates in parliamentary elections.
German politician receives neo-Nazi death threats
The threatening letters were signed by the "National Socialist Underground 2.0," a neo-Nazi moniker.
Left party politician Ramelow wins key German state vote
Bodo Ramelow has won the vote to become Thuringia's state premier after a right-wing scandal rocked the state.
The Left party are 'partly to blame' for the rise of the AfD
Marco Wanderwitz has said the party needs to take responsibility for the rise of the far-right in Germany.
Thuringia's ex-premier makes offer post-AfD debacle
Left party politician Bodo Ramelow has offered concessions to help solve a political crisis in the eastern German state.
CDU in crisis mode
Angela Merkel's party picks up the pieces from a disastrous week that saw a political taboo broken.
Germany: Left surges, CDU sinks after far-right scandal
Approval of Merkel's CDU took a nosedive in Thuringia after the party was accused of colluding with the far-right AfD.
Desolation and hope in Erfurt after far-right vote
For Left party activists, and Muslims, the implications on the ground are palpable.
Merkel coalition blocks bids to ban 'killer robots'
Germany's opposition Greens and ex-communist Left have failed with motions aimed at banning autonomous weapons.
Are Merkel's CDU and far-right AfD getting closer?
Calls for talks with the AfD in Thuringia have prompted sharp criticism from party brass and Jewish leaders.
Thuringia alarming, but has a silver lining
Kay-Alexander Scholz
After big wins for the far-left and far-right, the Christian Democrats need to step up, says DW's Kay-Alexander Scholz.
Far-right AfD overtakes Merkel's party in Thuringia election
The Left party landed a historic victory in the German state of Thuringia, though the far-right also made massive gains.
German asylum approvals almost always right
Only a tiny minority of asylum-seekers tried to trick German officials, according to data cited in a newspaper report.
Germany fighting for its identity
Ines Pohl
Eighty years after Nazi Germany started World War II, a nationalist, anti-immigrant party has surged in state elections.
Left party urges Germany-wide rent control
Berlin's urban development minister has already proposed capping monthly rates at €7.97 per square meter in the capital.
Could Berlin cap rents at €8 per square meter?
A measure to reduce residential rents is still subject to discussions and could change, German newspapers report.
Left party wants to nationalize German airlines
In an effort to fight climate change, the Left party has proposed nationalizing Germany's airlines.
Left party Berlin HQ evacuated over bomb threat
The left-wing "Die Linke" political party posted images of police securing its HQ, saying this followed a bomb threat.
Berlin to freeze rents for five years
An influential property-owners' association has called for landlords to raise rents before the bill can go into effect.
A border town's Left government and AfD voters
Frankurt (Oder) picked a Left mayor in 2018. In the EU elections, however, the voters went the opposite direction.
Assange faces extradition hearing, Berlin stays quiet
The WikiLeaks founder's possible extradition to the US for computer hacking has alarmed some, but apparently not Berlin.
Maduro meeting lands German politician in hot water
Left party MP Andrej Hunko said he wanted to express his "solidarity" against economic sanctions and the threat of war.
Could Germany see a new left-wing coalition?
Outgoing Left party icon Sahra Wagenknecht was long seen as standing in the way of a broad left-wing German coalition.
German Left's Wagenknecht to stand down
German leftist icon Sahra Wagenknecht says from September she will no longer lead the Left party's Bundestag lawmakers.
Germany: Left Party calls for EU 'reboot'
Germany's socialist party has presented a fundamental EU reform agenda at their convention in the western city of Bonn.
Left Party group posts 'anti-Semitic' cartoon
A group in Germany's Left Party has been criticized for posting a comic insinuating Israel's hand in Venezuela's crisis.
Stammtisch - Red Rosa and the German Left
100 years since Rosa Luxemburg's murder, Stammtisch looks at her importance today and the state of the German Left.
Surge in German weapons to Saudi Arabia & Turkey
German arms exports to Saudi Arabia and Turkey rose last year, despite public criticism.
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